Institute Catholique
The Institute Catholique, also known as the Catholic School for Indigent Orphans or the "Ecole Des Orphelins Indigents" was a school founded in the Fauborg Marigny district of New Orleans in 1840 dedicated to providing a free education to African-American orphans. It was the first school in the United States to offer a free education to African-American children. It also served the non-orphan children of free people of color ("gens de couleur libre"), who paid a modest tuition. It operated as a distinct entity until 1915.
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“Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’s foundation on such principles & organising it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.”
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